Dirty kitchens, stained mattresses, overflowing garbage, cockroaches crawling on cutting boards, raw pork left outside in a ...

If the leaves of your citrus tree are yellow, it’s a sign that they are deficient in the minerals — nitrogen and magnesium t ...

Options include naming a feral cat after your old flame before it’s neutered — or giving rodents or cockroaches your love bug’s name before feeding them to bigger animals. The Minnesota Zoo’s campaign ...

MIT scientists have developed tiny, flying robot insects that are more agile and durable than ever in the hopes of someday using them for pollination.

The idea of robots as pollen carriers is not entirely new. The robots reportedly developed earlier were not durable and ...

Scientists have demonstrated that Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bats not only travels great distances, but also hunt at impressive altitudes of up to 1,600 meters above ground -- the altitude at which ...

MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...

Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is an unusual member of the arum family whose choice of habitat and unique metabolic ...

Agriculture specialists examining an air cargo shipment discovered the beetles concealed inside multiple packages of snacks, ...

That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...